Dry eye disease as a complex dysregulation of the functional anatomy of the ocular surface. New impulses to understanding dry eye disease;Das trockene auge als komplexe fehlregulation der funktionellen anatomie der augenoberfläche. Neue impulse zum verständnis des trockenen auges

Ophthalmologe

Volumn 100, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 917-928

  Knop, E ^a,b   Knop, N ^b   Brewitt, H ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dry eye disease; Dysregulation; Functional Anatomy; Immune modulated inflammation; Pathogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN;

DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRY EYE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW;

CONJUNCTIVA; CORNEA; DRY EYE SYNDROMES; HUMANS; LACRIMAL APPARATUS; TEARS;

EID: 0345095350     PISSN: 0941293X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00347-003-0935-7     Document Type: Review

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